President Lee Jae Myung salutes the nationwide flag throughout a gathering on drawing up semiconductor business technique held on the presidential workplace in Seoul, Wednesday. Yonhap
President Lee Jae Myung on Wednesday praised late President Kim Dae-jung’s legacy in South Korea’s democratic resilience, saying the Korean individuals who peacefully overcame the latest democratic disaster deserve a Nobel Peace Prize as Kim himself did.
Lee posted the message on Fb to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of Kim’s receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded for his lifelong dedication to Korea’s democratic motion and his efforts to advertise reconciliation with North Korea.
“The Nobel Peace Prize was a tribute and a gesture of respect from the world to former President Kim, who devoted his life to democracy and peace on the Korean Peninsula,” Lee wrote.
Lee highlighted Kim’s accomplishments throughout his 1998-2003 presidency, noting he constructed nationwide data expertise infrastructure regardless of the Asian monetary disaster and adopted versatile cultural insurance policies that helped lay the inspiration for South Korea’s emergence as a worldwide digital and cultural powerhouse.
Kim, who spent many years resisting authoritarian rule within the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties, and survived imprisonment and home arrest, grew to become the primary opposition chief in South Korea’s historical past to win a presidential election and take workplace peacefully.
Lee mentioned Kim’s peaceable switch of energy in 1998 helped construct the inspiration for the Korean folks’s potential to peacefully overcome the democratic disaster triggered by former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s failed martial legislation try final December.
He mentioned the braveness and solidarity proven by those that gathered in entrance of the Nationwide Meeting on the evening of Yoon’s temporary martial legislation declaration provided “new hope and inspiration” to the world.
“I imagine the Korean individuals who peacefully overcame the democratic disaster deserve to face alongside former President Kim Dae-jung in receiving the Nobel Peace Prize,” he mentioned, vowing to take classes from Kim’s political philosophy to higher serve the folks.
